Makers of History
Romulus
By JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1901
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Copyright, 1880, by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott,
Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott.
The Harpies.PREFACE
In writing the series of historical narratives to which the presentwork pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to thereading community of this country an accurate and faithful account ofthe lives and actions of the several personages that are madesuccessively the subjects of the volumes, following precisely thestory which has come down to us from ancient times. The writer hasspared no pains to gain access in all cases to the original sources ofinformation, and has confined himself strictly to them. The readermay, therefore, feel assured in perusing any one of these works, thatthe interest of it is in no degree indebted to the invention of theauthor. No incident, however trivial, is ever added to the originalaccount, nor are any words even, in any case, attributed to a speakerwithout express authority. Whatever of interest, therefore, thesestories may possess, is due solely to the facts themselves which arerecorded in them, and to their being brought together in a plain,simple, and connected narrative.